1. (

• fell ,
• drop ,
• strike_down ,
• cut_down ,

) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" ;

2. (

• fly ,
• fell ,
• vanish ,

) pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" ;

3. (

• fell ,

) sew a seam by folding the edges ;

1. (

• barbarous ,
• brutal ,
• cruel ,
• fell ,
• roughshod ,
• savage ,
• vicious

) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" ;